Ron Keel is a Hard Rocking legend. Starting out with Tennessee-based ‘Lust’ he soon came to prominence first with Steeler (which at one point featured Yngwie Malmsteen) and then ‘Keel’ who toured the world at […]
If you love your Hard Rock to make you think of the Glammier side of the Sunset Strip circa 1987 then Midnite City is the band for you. Hailing from my old stomping ground of […]
There’s not that many bands I’ve traveled continents to see but Firehouse is one of them, making a trip from Australia back in 2008 to catch them (OK I’ll admit and a few others) at […]
In the first part of our interview we looked back at the early days of Enuff Z’Nuff you can catch up with Part One HERE. In Part Two we look deeper at ‘Beautiful Things,’ Enuff […]
These days Paul Judge makes music with ‘Gunners’ possibly Australia’s best Guns ‘n’ Roses cover band , but when we first met he was bassist for ‘Baby Jane’ the West Australian rockers who captured the […]
XYZ is a great band and one of those few bands that got me on the road seeking them out in the early 90’s when they played the Astoria in London on a rare visit […]
To me Donnie Vie is one of the greatest song-writers of his generation. When I listen to the music he has made over the years it’s still never fails to connect, and still to this […]
Sometimes an album just has a great vibe and the sound captures a moment in time.’Welcome To My World’ is one of those albums where every song seems strangely familiar even though you’ve never heard […]
By the time you read this Bang Tango will have played their comeback show at The Whisky in Hollywood. The show is sold out. It’s a reunion that many thought might never happen and one […]
Sadly no one sent me this one at the end of last year so here’s another great release from 2019 that we didn’t get a chance to review it. Shark Island of course back […]
When you call your sixth album ‘II’ that has to surely indicate some sort of statement of intent? To me it signals that H.E.A.T. are a band that is getting back to what made albums […]
Vocalist Robin McAuley (McAuley Schenker Group), guitarist Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), bassist Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, The End Machine, Dokken), and drummer Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big) have joined forces in Black Swan, a new […]
As UFO complete their final Tour in 2020, a year which also marks Vinnie Moore’s 17th year with the band there’s time for their guitar master to put out his ninth solo album since […]
Another one that passed me by last year was Hardline’s ‘Life’ and it’s my own fault as my unwillingness to ‘stream’ anything (I aim to be the last man on Earth to stream music) means […]
Kip Winger is a supremely talented musician, and if you are familiar with the music he created with Reb Beech and co. back in the day you will know that Winger weren’t your typical late […]
There’s a real Bon Jovi feel to Johnny Gioelli’s new album ‘One Voice’ and perhaps no more so than on opener ‘Drive’ which is, if you love that kinda thing, excellent. ‘It’ that follows has […]
3 years after their debut ‘Nothing Happens Overnight’ Brazilian rockers Rebel Machine is back with a second long-player ‘Whatever It Takes’ on the Swedish label Big Balls Productions. And this time they’ve expanded their range […]
Everyone of course knows Mr. Tony Harnell from his days with TNT but it seems now that those days are over for good with the latest fall out between Tony and guitarist Ronni LeTekro […]
Fighter V? Never heard of them? Neither had I. No one sent me this one, someone wrote in at the end of the year and recommended it. It’s a shame really as this is just […]
First impressions sometimes re unwittingly spot on and when I first heard the title track and opening song from Molly Karloff’s ‘Superannuation’ EP I thought – that sounds just like Justin Hawkins of The Darkness […]
This one is nice, Melodic Rock and AOR with heart and soul from the opener ‘Play To Win’ right till the very last note. Now the name Jesse Damon might not be familiar to many […]
Aside from the semi-comical name which always gives me a chuckle and an opening track titled ‘Touching You Every Day’ which gives me a light smile I really enjoy these guys and their outlandish AOR […]
Formed in Manchester in 2013 Gorilla Riot have a good few miles under the belt as well as a string of EP’s and singles but 2020 sees the release of their first full-length ‘Peach’. And […]
It’s been a while now since guitarist Danny De La Rosa left Babylon A.D. in March 2017 to be replaced by John Matthews. His departure was followed soon after by bassist Robb Reid (replaced by […]
If you’ve not yet fallen for the charms of Denmark’s ‘Electric Guitars’ then this might just be the album to push you over the edge. Taking the best of their back catalogue as well as […]
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